[StavrosK]

Yes, I'm fairly certain it is. We switched to the SaaS because of that, it wasn't worth the hassle of self-hosting when you get all the responsibility and still pay the same price.

[chongli]

What? I thought the draw of GitLab is that it’s open source. Anyone can download it and run it on a server without paying a dime.

[andreareina]

> The open source distribution is available to dowload here and contains all the same features as our Free tier.

https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/

So it's missing everything you'd pay GitLab for.

[rcxdude]

You would also need to reimplement the paid features yourself. Only the core (free) gitlab is open source.